Somebody help me out here. What is this stuff and what are its advantages.

Chaffhaye is made with alfalfa or grass that is carefully selected and harvested at peak leafiness to maximize nutrients, palatability and digestibility. Within hours of harvest, while still fresh, the pasture is chopped, lightly misted with molasses and compressed into an air-tight bag.

Chaffhaye is made with alfalfa or grass that is carefully selected and harvested at peak leafiness to maximize nutrients, palatability and digestibility. Within hours of harvest, while still fresh, the pasture is chopped, lightly misted with molasses and compressed into an air-tight bag.

My only issue with Chaffhaye is that while it does come in a 50lb bag, the content of the bag is only 25% hay with water making up the remaining 50% (at least in the one bag I read at Mumme's in Pearsall). That raises the cost of the bagged hay to over $25 per equivalent 50 lb bale. I fully recognize some of the benefits of this style of hay, but ouch. That is quite a bit over and above the standard alfalfa hay bale.

I'm buying it in Brownfield, Texas for $8.50/bag. If you guys are paying $13.00 for it, your getting ripped.
My deer are tearing the stuff up. I feed it every year during June and July and they are hitting it harder this year than they ever have. We've had pretty decent rains this year so it's not like they are starving. Protein feeder with cottonseed pellets in it right next to it and they are still hammering the chaffhaye. I put a bag out on the ground and come back in a couple of days and it is gone. Trailcam says they love it!